Terms and Conditions

Terms and Conditions of The HR Vault

These are the terms and conditions which apply to your use of this Website.

You are required to read this important information carefully before you proceed any further with access to this Website, and any associated purchases.

These terms and conditions relate to purchases made at www.thehrvault.co.uk.

By agreeing to these terms and conditions, you are agreeing with all our terms and conditions, as they stand and without modification.

General

The HR Vault (www.thehrvault.co.uk) is a trading name of HR Solutions (Consultancy) Limited.

This site is provided and owned by: HR Solutions (Consultancy) Limited (www.hrsolutions-uk.com )

These terms and conditions apply to your use of every part of this Website. Separate terms and conditions will apply to any websites accessible via a hypertext link from this Website.

Availability

HR Solutions (Consultancy) Limited will endeavour to ensure that this Website is accessible for 24 hours a day. However, HR Solutions (Consultancy) Limited will not be liable if, for any reason, the website is unavailable at any time or for any period.

HR Solutions (Consultancy) Limited will not be liable for loss or damage arising in contract, tort, or otherwise if this website becomes unavailable or is suspended for any reason.

Information

Information contained on this website is provided for information purposes only and HR Solutions (Consultancy) Limited will use all reasonable endeavours to ensure that it is accurate at the date of publication. However, because of the nature of the internet, there may be circumstances in which errors or omissions in the information may occur which are beyond the reasonable control of HR Solutions (Consultancy) Limited. For example unauthorised access by a third party. Consequently HR Solutions (Consultancy) Limited will not be liable for loss or damages arising, in contract, tort or otherwise, directly or indirectly from the use of or reliance upon any information contained on this Website, unless the accuracy of the information has been checked with HR Solutions (Consultancy) Limited before reliance is placed upon it.

Security

HR Solutions (Consultancy) Limited will take all reasonable steps to ensure that any personal information you provide is kept secure. However, because of the nature of the Internet, and the fact that it is not a secure system, HR Solutions (Consultancy) Limited cannot and do not guarantee that personal information you provide will not be intercepted by others and decrypted. Consequently your privacy cannot be guaranteed.

Please refer to our privacy policy for further details.

Disclaimers

This website contains hypertext links to other websites. The responsibility for those websites is that of the parties who are identified as providing those sites and HR Solutions (Consultancy) Limited cannot accept any responsibility for them or their use.

HR Solutions (Consultancy) Limited accepts no responsibility for the content of any other website to which a hypertext link to or from this Website exists.

HR Solutions (Consultancy) Limited cannot warrant that this Website is free of viruses or technical defects of any description and will not be responsible for any technical problems arising from the use of this Website.

HR Solutions (Consultancy) Limited reserves the right to change the content, presentation, user facilities and availability of any part of the Website at its sole discretion.

Refunds, Cancellations & Distance Selling Regulations

We intend all documents listed on the website to be sold to businesses and as such, Distance Selling Regulations do not apply to business sales.

Should you be a consumer adapting a document for personal use, then please be aware that as our documents are all electronic, in accordance with Regulation 13 of the Consumer Protection (Distance Selling) Regulations 2000, no automatic right of refund or cancellation will exist after a document has been purchased.

If a document is deemed to be faulty (in the case of electronic documents, a corrupt file, etc.) then you should make The HR Vault aware within 48 hours of purchase by emailing thehrvault@hrsolutions-uk.com citing your order number. You may also be able to go back to you online account to re-download the document which may solve the problem

Customer Care

The HR Vault believes that customer care is of paramount importance, as we hope to see you come back to our store again and again. So if there is any issue of concern then please let us know at your earliest convenience and we will do our best to rectify the situation within 48 hours, (Monday to Friday).

Refunds/ Credit Notes

Where an issue has arisen The HR Vault will in all cases offer an exchange for the identical document or a credit note for use on the website.

Only at our absolute discretion will you be entitled to a refund.

About the Product

Whilst all the documents that are available for download on the website are drafted by HR Professionals, by the nature of the content we are unable to offer any guarantee that the documents are up to date at all times. If you have a concern about the content of the document then the date the product was uploaded is a good indication as to when it was last revised.

Please note that whilst we believe these documents to be of the utmost quality we will not be held liable for any damages however so arising from the use of these documents.

The HR Vault has been established to assist HR Professionals by saving them time and money from having such documents drafted specifically for them. 

Before you use these documents we strongly advise you to make sure that they are in line with your own pre existing policies and procedures, and should you choose not to have them verified, you do so at your own risk.

Please also refer to our Future Changes Policy.

Legal Advice

Downloading and using these documents does not, and never will constitute The HR Vault (or HR Solutions (Consultancy) Limited) having offered legal advice.

If you do having need some additional support and advice then you can contact HR Solutions directly on 01536 484 552 or enquries@hrsolutions-uk.com.

Please note that the downloading, sending and usage of these documents does not and never will create a client relationship between The HR Vault (or HR Solutions) and the person downloading the documents (or the business they are downloading the documents on behalf of).

Copyright and Ownership

The HR Vault and HR Solutions (Consultancy) Limited own the copyright and all other intellectual property rights subsisting in the database accessible via the Website and all material on this Website, including all the trademarks visible on the Website.

You are not permitted to download, redistribute or extract any information on this Website in whole or in part other than for your own personal or Company’s use, unless otherwise stated and agreed.

HR Solutions (Consultancy) Limited (trading as The HR Vault) own the copyright on all the documents listed and stored on this website. Please do not attempt to modify them in any way so you can claim that they are your own and therefore claim the copyright.

As we do hold the copyright to the documents, we politely ask that you leave the copyright notice in the footer on them. If this is removed then you will be in breach of the copyright.

You may not transfer ownership of any of the documents that you have bought to any other organisation to enable them to breach this copyright clause. 

You may not rent, sell or lease any document to anyone else.

Any document that you purchase from The HR Vault cannot be re-sold, re-published, re-distributed (except within the business if the nature of the document requires such). It is not acceptable to copy and paste, disassemble, adapt or vary any section of any document for the purposes of re-sale.

Document Updates

The HR Vault offers a 30 day FREE document update to any recently purchased documents that are then subject to change. We always aim to ensure that the we notify you of any updates to policies and procedures. However, it is your responsibility to ensure that the document is up to date at all times and continues to apply to the relevant laws of England and Wales, and is consistent with your own internal pre-existing policies and procedures.

Disclaimer

The information and documents available on The HR Vault are provided on an "as is" basis without any representations or endorsements made and without any warranty of any kind whether express or implied, including but not limited to implied warranties of fitness for purpose, merchantability and accuracy.

Whilst we do make statements about the documents and employment law in general throughout the site, we must stress that you should not constitute this as legal advice of any sort.

If you choose to make amendments to the document we cannot be held liable for any such amendments. If you seek legal advice on the document, then the liability for the document will become that of the party from which you sought advice.

By using the Website you agree that in no circumstance shall The HR Vault (or HR Solutions (Consultancy) Limited) be liable for any indirect, incidental, special or consequential damages, including, but not limited to, loss of business or profits or any other financial loss, arising out of or in any way connected with the use of the Website or the documents, under any law or on any basis whatsoever whether contractual or otherwise, except in relation to death or personal injury for which no limit shall apply.

Alteration of Terms and Conditions

If you make a purchase from the website, then the terms upon which you agree will be the terms by which you are bound for that purchase. We reserve the right to change our terms and conditions at any time. Any revised terms and conditions will apply to future purchases. That is to say, you may have one document bound by one set of terms and conditions, and a different document bound by another set.

Entire Agreement

This Agreement constitutes the entire agreement concerning this subject matter.

Terminating the agreement

Whilst we believe this agreement is valid and enforceable, if any clause is deemed not to be such, that clause shall be removed but the remaining parts of the agreement shall remain in force.

Governing Law

HR Solutions (Consultancy) Limited have established this Site in England. English Law shall govern its use at all times and, in the event of a dispute, the relevant parties shall irrevocably submit to the exclusive jurisdiction of the English Courts.